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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You can use any other kernel that is
higher then 2.6.12</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Woodruff, Robert J
[mailto:robert.j.woodruff@intel.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, April 25, 2006 6:56
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Aviram Gutman; Tziporet Koren;
Amit Mehrotra (amehrotr); openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Alexander Smirnov; Davis,
Arlin R<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3
installation issues.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Not yet. Last I heard,
there was no uDAPL in OFED that is neeed by Intel MPI. Maybe RC4. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> Tziporet
wrote,</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>> </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Regarding uDAPL and RHEL4 (up2 & 3): Since we have not
completed the uCMA backport for kernel 2.6.9 we eliminated uDAPL </span></font><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Aviram Gutman
[mailto:aviram@mellanox.co.il] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:48
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Woodruff, Robert J; Tziporet
Koren; Amit Mehrotra (amehrotr); openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Alexander Smirnov; Davis,
Arlin R<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3
installation issues.</span></font></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:maroon'>Woody,</span></font></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:maroon'>Are
you testing Intel MPI on top of OFED?</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Regards,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Aviram</span></font></p>
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Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces@openib.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Woodruff, Robert J<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 24, 2006 11:33
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Tziporet Koren; Amit Mehrotra
(amehrotr); openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Alexander Smirnov; Davis,
Arlin R<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3
installation issues.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>The latest patches I have
is for SVN 6509 on the trunk. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'><a
href="https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/backport-to-2.6.9/">https://openib.org/svn/gen2/branches/backport-to-2.6.9/</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>infiniband-backport-svn6509-to-2.6.9-34.EL-kernel-fixups-00.diff<br>
infiniband-backport-svn6509-to-2.6.9-34.EL-kernel-fixups-01.diff<br>
infiniband-backport-svn6509-to-2.6.9-openib-drivers-02.diff<br>
infiniband-backport-svn6509-to-2.6.9-openib-fixups-03.diff</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I don't split the patches
by component, but rather have one to strip out the old IB</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>code in RedHat EL4.0, one
to apply needed kernel changes to the RedHat kernel,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>one for the openib
drivers, and one for openib fixups that are needed.</span></font></p>
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.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Tziporet Koren
[mailto:tziporet@mellanox.co.il] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 24, 2006 11:43
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Woodruff, Robert J; Amit
Mehrotra (amehrotr); openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Alexander Smirnov; Davis,
Arlin R<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3
installation issues.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We plan to do a backport
of uCMA for RC4.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Can you point me to your
backport of uCMA for 2.6.9-34EL</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tziporet</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Bob Woodruff
[mailto:robert.j.woodruff@intel.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 24, 2006 6:56
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Tziporet Koren; Amit Mehrotra
(amehrotr); openfabrics-ewg@openib.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Alexander Smirnov; Davis,
Arlin R<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [openfabrics-ewg] rc3
installation issues.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> Tziporet
wrote,</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>> </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Regarding uDAPL and RHEL4 (up2 & 3): Since we have not
completed the uCMA backport for kernel 2.6.9 we eliminated uDAPL </span></font><font
size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:blue'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>> </span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> installation in case of this kernel. We also indicated this
in the package limitation mail.</span></font><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Note
that there are two uDAPL providers for OpenIB. One uses standard
sockets for connections (socket CM)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>and the
other uses CMA. I would suggest that you should include the socket CM
uDAPL provider even</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>if you
do not have a backport for uCMA.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><font size=2 color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>BTW. -
My backport patches contain backport for uCMA for 2.6.9-34-EL if you need
an example.</span></font></p>
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